[Elsie]

What do you propose the populace was expected to “read”, in the 1500 years before the printing press, not to mention the illiteracy rate?

JESUS seemed to have NO problem READING the scroll of Isaiah - as was His custom.

I recall no schooling ever mentioned that He attended.

[G Larry]

And when was the canon of the New Testament established?

When was it assembled into a single, stand alone work?

Who had access to it?

How available was it to the common man prior to the invention of the printing press?

What percentage of the population could read up until that time?